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![]() Frank Alexander Born in Charlotte, NC umpteen years ago. I have worked since I was 12 when I had my own paper route in Charlotte. I later moved up to less than minimum wages at Carowinds entertainment park. In High School I drove a school bus and in the summer, refinished wood floors. When I left for college, I co-oped with the local power company and learned Fortran on punch cards in class. I played with other's Commodores, Zenith's, and my company's IBM AT/XT and a Compaq portable (which wasn't too light in those days) in my spare time, picking up basic on my own. I graduated with BSIE from NCSU and went to Detroit. I only lasted in the cold weather for a year before moving back to NC, where I floundered in the furniture business as an Industrial Engineer. I moved on to a well known plastic food container manufacturing site near Myrtle Beach, SC where I was introduced to Paradox 3 for DOS when my employer installed a new 386 machine with a whopping 100mg hard file. Our department had the responsibility of keeping up with the material safety data sheets for the plant. Someone had started putting them into a program called Paradox. I started assisting the clerk entering the information just so I could get acquainted with this new program. While there I toyed with the program for a few years while I attended grad school at USC (The Original USC) for business. Towards the end of my stay with this company, I implemented a virtual inventory tracking system for raw material storage. This system helped the company to reduce their inventories by over $1M and was better at maintaining the accounting than the official accounting system. This system tracked over 1000 different inventory items, quantity, weight and location. And even made accounting adjustments when weight differences were detected. My next employment moved me to Greenville, NC where I worked for an automotive parts manufacturer and implemented several Paradox programs that maintained a suggestion program, a capital budget, engineering projects, and several other non mission critical applications. Here I upgraded my experience to Paradox for Windows. I learned that what ever job I had, I could always count on Paradox to speed up those tedious tasks that seemed to migrate my way. I also had a crazy room mate who kept two domesticated mallards in the back yard (and sometimes in the house). A true PAIR-O-DUCKS!. Obviously that didn't last long before my nerves were destroyed. While in Greenville, I also continued my education in a Masters of Engineering program. I also met my soon to be wife through my next door neighbor. We got married soon thereafter. Finally, my last employer, hired me into a position in Ft. Lauderdale, FL for a year and then transferred me back to my home state within the year. Here, I sit working as a project manager for IBM. I am not a programmer, nor will I ever want to be. Paradox just makes my life easier. My hobbies are my kids, wife, bicycling, golf, and just playing around in my workshop. Check out these articles written by Frank : Connecting to Lotus Notes Databases Paradox Community Newsgroups |
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